A+ Pantheon
A Masterpiece
Far from Heaven (Haynes)
A- Great
Talk to Her (Almòdovar)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)
A-/B+ Near Great
Y Tu Mamá También (Cuaron)
Femme Fatale (De Palma)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson)
Turning Gate (Hong)
8 Women (Ozon)
Time Out (Cantet)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai)
B+ Strongly Recommended
25th Hour (Lee)
Adaptation (Jonze)
Trouble Every Day (Denis)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
Gangs of New York (Scorsese)
The Ring (Verbinski)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai)
Minority Report (Spielberg)
The Lady and the Duke (Rohmer)
B+/B Warmly Recommended
Solaris (Soderbergh)
Esther Kahn (Despleschin)
About a Boy (Weitz & Weitz)
Roger Dodger (Kidd)
24 Hour Party People (Winterbottom)
Morvern Callar (Ramsay)
Late Marriage (Koshavili)
Spider-Man (Raimi)
Blissfully Yours (Weerasethakul)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike)
Full Frontal (Soderbergh)
Songs from the Second Floor (Andersson)
Insomnia (Nolan)
B Recommended
Biggie & Tupac (Broomfield)
Monsoon Wedding (Nair)
The Pianist (Polanski)
The Piano Teacher (Haneke)
Pulse (Kurosawa)
Russian Ark (Sokurov)
Scratch (Gray)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Imamura)
B/B- Recommended with Minor Reservations
Bowling for Columbine (Moore)
Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (Peralta)
Les Destinées Sentimentales (Assayas)
Intacto (Fresnadillo)
Metropolis (Rintaro)
Oasis (Lee)
Signs (Shyamalan)
Tears of a Black Tiger (Wisit)
The Truth About Charlie (Demme)
B- Recommended with Major Reservations
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Kanuk)
Birthday Girl (Butterworth)
Bloody Sunday (Greenblatt)
Heaven (Tykwer)
Lilo & Stitch
Merci pour le chocolat (Chabrol)
Panic Room (Fincher)
Sex and Lucia (Medem)
The Son’s Room (Moretti)
Springtime in a Small Town (Tian)
Spy Kids 2 (Rodriguez)
Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones (Lucas)
C+ Not Recommended, but with redeeming facets
About Schmidt (Payne)
City of Lost Souls (Miike)
Die Another Day (Tamorahi)
Eloge de l’Amour (Godard)
Dark Water (Nakata)
No Such Thing (Hartley)
C Disliked
All or Nothing (Leigh)
Chicago (Marshall)
C- Actively Disliked
Men in Black II (Sonnenfeld)
D+ Loathed